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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #3
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  • #5
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #8
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
    Rainer Marie Rilke

  • #9
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #11
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #13
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #14
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #15
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #16
    Clifton Fadiman
    “When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
    Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Radiohead
    “one day I am gonna grow wings
    a chemical reaction
    hysterical but useless
    hysterical and a let down”
    radiohead

  • #19
    William Blake
    “Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”
    William Blake, Milton a Poem
    tags: time

  • #20
    John   Waters
    “Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
    John Waters

  • #21
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

  • #22
    Louisa May Alcott
    “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #23
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #24
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846

  • #25
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

  • #26
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “The world of books is still the world.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
    tags: books

  • #27
    Alexander Hamilton
    “their”
    Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers



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